What is Early Access Program

We at JetBrains believe that making tools for developers should greatly involve listening to developers. Our Early Access Program lets development community closely participate in discussions devoted to IntelliJ IDEA and influence development planning, from early stages onwards.
Early Access Program allows you to try pre-release versions of our software to evaluate features that will be added to the next release.

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It is important to distinguish EAP from traditional pre-release software. Please note that the quality of EAP versions may at times be way below even usual beta standards.

Plugin Development Kit: Since the open-source Community Edition was released, we no longer provide the plugin development kit as a separate download. Please see http://www.jetbrains.org/display/IJOS/Writing+Plug-ins for instructions on setting up a plugin development environment.

Notable changes in IntelliJ IDEA 14

Code Coverage tool, Structural Search and Replace, and Type Migration refactoring have become available in IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition

General IDE

The new wizard that helps configure the IDE on start-up

The improved Find in path action now can search within files with unknown extensions and within the .idea configuration files. It also uses indices when searching for strings that contain a part of an identifier (3 characters and longer.)

Indexing: upon changes in used libraries or excluded directories indexing is restarted with new settings

Indexing: upon changes from VCs or other external changes indexing is performed asynchronously

Copy/paste selected code as HTML/RTF is now available without additional plugins.

Plugin update is performed on patch download: one restart to update plugins less

Some of the startup activities are now performed in background, so many editor/VCS actions are now available earlier
The new Code cleanup action (available via Analyze → Code Cleanup or as an option in the VCS commit dialog) applies quick-fixes in batch mode to selected files.

Java debugger

Rewritten using the new API, with unified Debugger tool window for all languages.

The Watches tab now persists expressions (and remembers it even after you close it.)

Breakpoints can now be arranged by user groups.

Hidden elements of long arrays and collections are displayed on demand, you no longer need to edit the view settings for that.

In debugging, When I step over(F8) some lines it takes more than 5 minutes, while stepping over same lines take less than a second in netbeans.I have this problem in both 13 and 14 versions of IntelliJ.

Bitdefender complains about 1038 and disabled C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE. Obviously this is not your program. This only popped up while installing the EAP. I'll investigate and see if IDEA is just a canary in the coal mine.